Book Description
This study examines on the basis of historical evidence the ethical perceptions of the Sikh community at the turn of the last century.
Author : Nripinder Singh
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Sikh ethics
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This study examines on the basis of historical evidence the ethical perceptions of the Sikh community at the turn of the last century.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Sikhism
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Author : Sardar Singh Bhatia
Publisher : Publication Bureau Pubjabi University
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Articles previously published in Journal of religious studies.
Author : Harbans Singh Bhatia
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Sikhism
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Author : Harjot Oberoi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 1994-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226615929
In this major reinterpretation of religion and society in India, Oberoi challenges earlier accounts of Sikhism, Hinduism, and Islam as historically given categories encompassing well-demarcated units of religious identity. Through an examination of Sikh historical materials, he shows that early Sikhism recognized multiple identities based in local, regional, religious, and secular loyalties. As a result, religious identities were highly blurred and competing definitions of Sikhism were possible. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, however, the Singh Sabha, a powerful new Sikh movement, began to view the multiplicity in Sikh identity with suspicion and hostility. Aided by cultural forces unleashed by the British Raj, the Singh Sabha sought to recast Sikh tradition and purge it of diversity, bringing about the highly codified culture of modern Sikhism. A study of the process by which a pluralistic religious world view is replaced by a monolithic one, this book questions basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist claims and the construction of all social and religious identities.
Author : Nripinder Singh
Publisher :
Page : 1454 pages
File Size : 31,57 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Sikh ethics
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Author : Arvind-Pal S. Mandair
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 023151980X
Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. At the same time, he presents a portrait of how certain aspects of Sikh tradition were reinvented as "religion" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. India's imperial elite subtly recast Sikh tradition as a sui generis religion, which robbed its teachings of their political force. In turn, Sikhs began to define themselves as a "nation" and a "world religion" that was separate from, but parallel to, the rise of the Indian state and global Hinduism. Rather than investigate these processes in isolation from Europe, Mandair shifts the focus closer to the political history of ideas, thereby recovering part of Europe's repressed colonial memory. Mandair rethinks the intersection of religion and the secular in discourses such as history of religions, postcolonial theory, and recent continental philosophy. Though seemingly unconnected, these discourses are shown to be linked to a philosophy of "generalized translation" that emerged as a key conceptual matrix in the colonial encounter between India and the West. In this riveting study, Mandair demonstrates how this philosophy of translation continues to influence the repetitions of religion and identity politics in the lives of South Asians, and the way the academy, state, and media have analyzed such phenomena.
Author : Mari Rapela Heidt
Publisher : Anselm Academic Christian Brothers Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 9780884897491
Ethics, morality and the study of religious ethics - Hindu tradition - Buddha - Jewish moral tradition - Christian tradition - Islam and the Muslim moral tradition - Chinese moral tradition - Additional moral traditions.
Author : Jagbir Jhutti-Johal
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 25,64 MB
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1847062725
Exciting new introduction to contemporary Sikhism And The issues and debates facing it in modern society.
Author : Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441153667
Sikhism's short but relatively eventful history provides a fascinating insight into the working of misunderstood and seemingly contradictory themes such as politics and religion, violence and mysticism, culture and spirituality, orality and textuality, public sphere versus private sphere, tradition and modernity. This book presents students with a careful analysis of these complex themes as they have manifested themselves in the historical evolution of the Sikh traditions and the encounter of Sikhs with modernity and the West, in the philosophical teachings of its founders and their interpretation by Sikh exegetes, and in Sikh ethical and intellectual responses to contemporary issues in an increasingly secular and pluralistic world. Sikhism: A Guide for the Perplexed serves as an ideal guide to Sikhism, and also for students of Asian studies, Sociology of Religion and World Religions.